Noir Chronicles: City of Crime

A rather mediocre casual point-and-click adventure. The "story" is a thin series of go theres and do thats. At one point a wise guy reveals information to you only after you ... fix his boiler? Wow, what a thriller.

There aren't many hidden-object scenes, and they're just OK. The puzzle mini-games are trivial and unoriginal.

Where this game sinks below mediocrity to get a thumbs down is in its sad attempt at "film noir" atmosphere. It's a grab bag of clichés wrapped in poorly written dialog read by British (!) voice actors.